This column examines some recent media materials for middle and high schools on federal, state, and local government; the legislative process; the presidency; the judicial branch; elections; and citizen participation. Complete ordering information is included. (Author/SJL)

Outlines strategies for implementing storytelling in the classroom over a two-week period, beginning with shared story telling of existing folktales and progressing to student creation and telling of narratives based on the folktale model. Consists of an introductory phase, a laboratory phase, and a performance phase. (LP)

This unit is designed to strengthen critical thinking and problem-solving skills by allowing students to assume the roles of 1992 Winter Olympic Games planners who make preparations for the event. A reproducible data sheet serves as a resource. Hands-on activities and a critical television viewing activity are included. (IAH)

Although many of us would like to get beyond lecturing, we often lack concrete strategies for doing so, particularly in our larger classes. This paper suggests one such strategy for creating a discussion-based course. The success of such a course is predicated on students reading and thinking about the course material (receiving "first exposure")…

This notebook serves as a guide for learning activities in environmental education. Twelve themes are treated in four groups: (1) sense of place includes history and landscape; (2) the natural environment covers air, water, energy, and landforms; (3) the built environment includes architecture, transportation, and housing; and (4) the social…

This module is one of five modules on length, area, volume and capacity, mass, and temperature, developed for the use of teachers and teacher-trainer team leaders. Primary and intermediate activities in this booklet concentrate on the concept of area with emphasis on metric measurement. The objectives and needed materials for each activity are…

This module is one of five modules on length, area, volume and capacity, mass, and temperature, developed for the use of teachers and teacher-trainer team leaders. Primary and intermediate activities in this booklet concentrate on the concept of length with emphasis on metric measurement. The objectives and needed materials for each activity are…

This module is one of five modules on length, area, volume and capacity, mass, and temperature, developed for the use of teachers and teacher-trainer team leaders. Primary and intermediate activities in this booklet concentrate on the concept of mass with emphasis on metric measurement. The objectives and needed materials for each activity are…

This module is one of five modules on length, area, volume and capacity, mass, and temperature, developed for the use of teachers and teacher-trainer team leaders. Primary and intermediate activities in this booklet concentrate on the concepts of volume and capacity with emphasis on metric measurement. The objectives and needed materials for each…

This instructional package was designed to develop a basic understanding of solar energy systems. It consists of seven instructional units, a glossary and a collection of transparency masters for use with the units. Each unit presents: (1) unit objective and specific objectives; (2) background material for student reading; (3) student assignment…

Designed as a companion volume to a K-6 curriculum, this collection of career education and guidance activities corresponds to fifty units to be taught by elementary school teachers. Example career education unit topics include these: about myself; about my family; leisure time; basic needs of man; cities; science; and crafts. For each unit,…

Developed by the Oregon Elementary English Project, this curriculum unit contains drama activities intended for grades one and two. The activities are not ordered in a definite sequence; rather they are meant to be used as the opportunity arises. The activities are divided into (1) exercises based on puppetry, including a puppet hunt, the making…

A course in children's literature for prospective elementary school teaches used two new educational strategies: first, the basis of the course was a set of performance-based instructional modules; second, the overall style of the class was similar to a modified open classroom approach. Each student was asked to complete at least one…

Out of approximately 50 activities which were, for a variety of reasons, not included in the final version of the High School Geography Project course, Geography in an Urban Age, the HSGP staff selected eight which would be useful in many secondary school classrooms. The activities included here are: 1) Operation Bigger Beef (on themes of cultural…